Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-03-10

Pennsylvania; to contested elections; the
senate resolution retaliation bill; author
izing an investigation of books, methods
and accounts of the Pacific railroad. or
the total number of
BILLS WHICH PASSED THE SENATE
800 bee rme laws, including lis of pub
nc and 200 of q strictly private nature.
The following is a list of the more ira
portant senate bills placed on the statute
books by the present congress: The
presidential succession bill devoying the
heirship of the presidency upon members
of the cabinet in the event of a vacancy
III the office of president and vice presi-
denti the Cullom Reagan bill to regulate
izing the transmission of weather re-
ports through the mails free of postage;
to increase the pension for loss of an
arm or leg; to indemnify the Chinese for
losses sustained by the Rock Springs,
Interstate commerce; for the retirement
and recoinage of the trade dollar the
electoral count bill; for the allotment OF
lands IN seyeralty to Indians and extend.
lag the protection of the laws to Indians
ON the various reservations; to repeal the
tenure of office act; TO increase the an
nual appropriation for the militia;
to establish agricultural expert
mental stations; for the study
of the effects of narcotics and intoxi-
cants in public schools, to legalize the
incorporation of trades unions; author
Wyoming, riot; for the relief of Texas,
Colorado, Oregon, Nebraska, California,
Kansas, Washington territory and Idaho;
to remove the charge of desertion from
the records of soldiers who re-enlisted
without having received a discharge on
account of the first enlistment; to estab-
fish two additional land districts in Ne
braska; TO amend the laws relating to
patents, trade marks and copyrights; to
authorize the postmaster general to allow
compensation for railroad apartment car
service furnished pursuant to agreement,
to bridge the Mississippi river at st.
Louis; TO allow receivers of national
banks to buy on trust property on the APP
proval of the comptroller of the cur
rency: to provide for the execution OF
article 9 of the Chinese treaty of Nov. 81,
1880 Ut prohibits the importation of
opium into either country by citizens OF
the other); for the erection of public
building at Milwaukee, Wis. OF the fore
going measures, seven became laws by
the expiration of the constitutional ten
days limitation. They were the Mormon
polygamy bill, trade dollar redemption
bill, militia bill and four private bills.
THE SENATE BILLS VETOED
we're SO in number, IL beng of public
and % of a private character. The pub
lie bills vetoed were as follows: To quiet
the titles of the settlers of the Des Moines
river land (passed over the veto in the'
senate but failed of the necessary two
thirds vote in the housed: for the erection
of public buildings at Zsnesville, Ohio;
Lafayette, nd; Sioux City, Iowa; Day
ton, Ohio; (nassed over the veto in both
houses), and Lynn, Mass; to extend the
provisions of the immediate transporta-
ti0n act, to Omaha, Neb.; to grant a rail
road right of way through the Indian
reservation in Northern Montana.
THE 80 HOUSE BILLS VETOED
incluued 81 sriyate bills and bills Of
a public nature. The public bills vetoed
were for the erection of federal buildings
Mt SprinGeld Mo, Duluth Mimi, Ashville
\. g., and Portsmouth Ohio; to distrib-
ute $4,000 worth of seeds among the
drputh stricken people of Texas, and to
~ ant pensions to dependent relatives of
deceased soldiers. An effort made to
Pa-s the dependent pension bill over the
veto failed.
THR BRGULAB APPROPRIATION BILLS
which failed to become laws were: The
Notifications bill for both congresses; the
river and harbor bill of the present. SEES.
sion, which was not signed by the presi-
dent; and the deficiency bill, on which the
conferees' report was not submitted in
time for action. The failure of the for
tihcations bill was due to the decided DIFF
ferences of opinion between the confer
ees of the two houses
OTHER BILLS THAT FAILED TO BECOME LAWS,
Fifty bills in addition to those which
became laws and those vetoed were
sent to the president, but were
"pocketed" by him on the adjournment
Of congress and therefore failed. The
most important are the following: The
river and harbOr bill; to prevent the en-
ployment OF convict and alien labor on
public works; the ONeill labor arbitra.
ton bill for the settlement of controver-
sizes between the interstate railroads and
their employees; the Morrison surplus
resolution: the bill establishing addition
al aids TO navigation at the mouth of the
Mississippi, and FORGETTING the land grant
to the railroad from Ontonagon 20 the
Wisconsin state line also failed III con
ference, while the bill to create a depart
ment of agriculture and labor was killed
by the inability of its friends to send it
to the conference committee. About
$50 bills and joint resolutions which
passed the house failed of actios n the
senate, some of which, however, we're
defeated by adverse committee reports.
About $50 bills passed by the senate failed
of passage in the house. The Cameron
pa twin bills appropriating $35,000,000
for an increase of the navy were sent to
the naval committee and died there
although the provision for additional
vessels was inserted in the naval approp-
ration bill. The twin Notifications bills
which passed the senate were allowed to
sleep in the house appropriations com
mittee room. This Dakota admission
bill still slumbers on the house
calendar. The bill for the admission
of Washington territory failea of action,
as did the bill to grant Dearborn park, to
the city of Chicago. The following
national measures failed of action, of an
affirmative vote in either house; The